TELEGRAMS.
. . - . (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION,) Auckland, October 24. The Warden at the Thames has refused an application by the ThamesHauraki Company for permission to work with six men until the end of this year. '-.The Company got £26,000 from the Government on condition that they would sink to 1000 feet, with a view of testing the deep levels on tbe Thames goldfield. Already the Company has spent £120,000 in addition to the Government subsidy, and i is now pumping to 668 feet. Tbe funds have gone out, and the Company is in. liquidation. The Warden sym- , pathised with the Company, and said in ordinary cirbums'tances he would have granted a concession, but they were tied up by the contract with the Government, and the application must • be refused. t Chbistchurch, October 24. i The idea of bringing down Maoris i from Gißborne and Waikato to take ; part in the Jubilee ceremonies, had to i be abandoned on account of the cxl pense in caking them to Wellington, i It is proposed to bring 80 from Wangai nui, 40 from Otaki, and 180 from , Hawke's Bay to the Hutt.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7054, 25 October 1900, Page 2
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187TELEGRAMS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7054, 25 October 1900, Page 2
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